Post by CIA Agente Arenas on May 1, 2007 14:41:00 GMT -5
It's funny. The moment you mentioned Goya in regards to SJ, I didn't think "The Third of May" or any of his traditional paintings. I thought of "Saturn Devouring his Son" (Warning: it's a bit graphic and bloody, on par with OUATIM. Not for the faint of heart). I never really made the conscious connection between that picture and SJ before, but between George Yepes' style with the definite brush strokes, the bold, dark colours and the blackness that is OUATIM after the metaphorical crap hits the fan...I can picture it. In this case, SJ could be either Saturn (before Mexico) because he's ambitious, he doesn't mind getting his hands dirty, he'll do anything he has to to get to the top. Including, devouring whatever gets in his way. After Mexico, it's almost as though he's met his match and got himself ruined for it. It's Mexico that ate him up. And the copious amounts of blood would seem to be consistent, amiright?
Goya, in retrospect, is really a perfect painter for capturing the darker themes of OUATIM. Remembering my Spanish art classes, we had a huge lecture on Goya and he painted a lot of weird stuff. "The Third of May" could easily be an allegory for El (No more deaths in his town), "Two Old People Eating Soup" seems the perfect image of Belini, eager to spill what secrets he has over good food/drink. But with SJ in mind, it's "Saturn Devouring His Sons" all the way. It's just the right kind of macabre, bloody, violent, horrific, black, bleak picture into SJ's "Me vs. Them" attitude that I can think of.
Goya, in retrospect, is really a perfect painter for capturing the darker themes of OUATIM. Remembering my Spanish art classes, we had a huge lecture on Goya and he painted a lot of weird stuff. "The Third of May" could easily be an allegory for El (No more deaths in his town), "Two Old People Eating Soup" seems the perfect image of Belini, eager to spill what secrets he has over good food/drink. But with SJ in mind, it's "Saturn Devouring His Sons" all the way. It's just the right kind of macabre, bloody, violent, horrific, black, bleak picture into SJ's "Me vs. Them" attitude that I can think of.